South Georgia Pipit

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When to see the South Georgia Pipit

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the South Georgia Pipit

The map shades 1 country with regular records, and 4 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in ZZ, Argentina, Spain, Falkland Islands.

About the South Georgia Pipit

The South Georgia pipit is a sparrow-sized bird found only on the South Georgia archipelago off the Antarctic Peninsula. It is the only songbird in Antarctica, South Georgia's only passerine, and one of the few non-seabirds found in the region. It builds nests from dried grass, usually within tussac grass, and lays four eggs a year. It feeds on small insects and spiders, and beach debris.

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Easily confused with

Siberian PipitAnthus japonicusThe Siberian pipit, also known as the Japanese pipit and formerly known as the buff-bellied pipit, is a species of songbird in the family Motacillidae. MadangaAnthus ruficollisThe madanga or rufous-throated white-eye is a species of bird that was formerly included in the family Zosteropidae but is now thought to be an atypical member of the family Motacillidae, consisting of the pipits and wagtails. Alpine PipitAnthus gutturalisThe alpine pipet is a medium-sized bird that lives in the alpine grasslands.